Word: alert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, steady and alert, the young man marched into a scientific meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine with some 50 patients of 48-year-old Otolaryngologist Julius Lempert. All had been cured of apparently hopeless deafness by an operation of hairbreadth delicacy, developed in Europe 15 years ago. Its name: "endaural fenestration...
...people to get some clear ideas about "Democracy." Two very different books on this grand topic are John Chamberlain's and J. P. Mayer's. Chamberlain's is a businesslike analysis of the way things in the U. S. appear to an alert young man who has humane hopes and unusually good information. The other is a scholar's account of another young man who wrote about the U. S. 100 years...
...Senator" told Hatchet-man Durno he had chosen as 1940 president the New York Times'?, alert Felix Belair Jr. Balding Newshawk Durno grumbled that Vice President John O'Brien of the Philadelphia Inquirer was next in line; added that Belair didn't want to run. Gruffed the Boss: "I'm not asking him, I'm telling him." Thus, on a Good Government platform, Felix Belair Jr. was this week elected W. H. C. A. president-as correspondents all over the city deserted press rooms, cabbed to the White House, voted 100% Belair on the slogan...
...Sheridan build-up began about two weeks ago when Lowell Thomas referred to the Lampoon's poke at Miss Sheridan as "least likely to succeed." An alert Hollywood publicity man saw his chance and got her to issue a counterblast at the Lampoon, and the big-time publicity began...
...bone. Normal British meat consumption is one pound and three-quarters per person per week. But liver, kidneys, tongue, sausage will not be rationed, and restaurants may sell meat meals irrespective of ration cards, but their meat supply will be cut 40%. Government inspectors are on the alert for bootleg butchers...